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Alito said the decision to recuse is his to make, not the chief justice’s.
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Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
Judge Jean Toal, the former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, ruled that even if Hill told jurors to watch Murdaugh’s actions and body language on the stand, the defense failed to prove that her comments changed anyone’s mind and influenced the jury’s verdict.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
Moreover, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has yet to learn to rule according to the law and constitution, rather than according to the chief justice’s political preferences.
—Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
The chief justice, now 69 and about to begin his 20th term, appears to have abandoned his usual institutional concerns.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
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Dan Morrison, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
Judge Jean Toal, the former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, ruled that even if Hill told jurors to watch Murdaugh’s actions and body language on the stand, the defense failed to prove that her comments changed anyone’s mind and influenced the jury’s verdict.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
Moreover, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has yet to learn to rule according to the law and constitution, rather than according to the chief justice’s political preferences.
—Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
The chief justice, now 69 and about to begin his 20th term, appears to have abandoned his usual institutional concerns.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
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